Sunday 8 February 2015 09:36, UK
Britain's Lizzy Yarnold produced a stunning second slide to win the Skeleton World Cup event in Igls, Austria.
Yarnold was able to celebrate victory a year on from the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where she followed 2010 winner Amy Williams by winning the gold medal.
She started the event poorly - in relative terms - with a bad push-off leading to her finishing fourth, just over a tenth of a second off the pace on her first slide and a place behind team-mate Laura Deas.
But Yarnold made no such mistake second time around as she flew down the track and beat Canada's Elisabeth Vathje by 0.18 seconds.
Austria's Janine Flock finished third, which was enough to take her to the top of the enough to overtake Tina Hermann of Germany for the overall World Cup lead - Hermann finished fifth in Igls.
Deas ended up coming home in sixth with Rose McGrandle back in eighth.
Victory was enough to lift Yarnold from fifth into third in the overall rankings with one event left back on the same track where she won Olympic gold. Flock leads Hermann by a single point with Yarnold 68 points off the pace.
"I was quite tired going into the second run, it’s our fifth consecutive week away competing so it was a little bit of an endurance race,” Yarnold said.
“I have to give a special shout out to my British team-mates Laura and Rose. They are great, even if I am feeling tired, they make me keep going and do better.”
